From: Ellis Weiner (eweiner_at_nni.com)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 15:50:41 EDT
You mean a virus that goes from machine to machine and demands lupins?
Yes, but it only runs on Macs.
E.
Jonathan Berry wrote:
> In article <200204302115.g3ULFFi37930_at_pilot25.cl.msu.edu>,
> "STeve Andre'" <andres_at_msu.edu> wrote:
>
> >But a human-to-human protocol is far harder to spoof, and if you
> >always used an exchange phrase (Froofinfratz!) in your message,
> >a viri will have a far harder time figuring out how to deal with you
> >and get you to open something.
>
> But imagine a virus that waits until you send an attachment,
> preserves the text part, but substitutes its own payload.
>
> It seems to me that a step towards eliminating virii would be
> if they could find (not sure how, but maybe through virus
> checking programs, constructing a database, then working
> backwards in time) where the virus originated. That might be
> the smoking gun that points towards the author of the virus.
>
> By comparison, you don't hear much about picking up viruses by
> downloading executables from a web site. It's never happened
> to me, anyway. Such executables would be traceable in a most
> obvious way.
>
> I'm still hoping for viruses that will do good. You know, a
> virus that will remove adware and spyware from my machine with
> no ill effects. Is there a Dennis Moore virus?
>
> --
> cheers
> Jonathan Berry
> http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
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